Originals

The Original Vampires, or simply The Originals, are a group of extremely powerful vampires that are known for being the first of their bloodlines and the first generation of Original vampires (which is names after them), which makes them the oldest, fastest, strongest, and most powerful vampires in the world, even alpha vampires. Their name is a term used to describe a progenitor in a vampire bloodline.

A number of characteristics differentiate an Original from the vampire bloodline that they begat, but the fundamental difference is that Originals became vampires through a spell, not by ingesting the blood of another immortal; and, unlike the normal Original vampires and the monster vampires, the Originals are indestructible and cannot be killed by anything on earth aside from the White Oak Stake and The Colt. They also can only be temporarily neutralized by a White Oak Ash Dagger or one of the Cursed Stakes.